beer and skittles

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fun times; pleasure and leisure. UK,idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and skittles—but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

词形变化

skittles and beer alternative

词源

Found as early as 1837, in Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, where it appears in the form, “It’s a reg’lar holiday to them—all porter and skittles”. The most common form, as a negative admonition, appears to have been popularized by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days (1857, see quotation below).
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